Amazon employees want to rethink return policy

Amazon (Amazon) Employees angry about the end of remote work try to get the company to rethink.

Hundreds of employees of the e-commerce giant said in a survey that the policy announced last week five days a week in the office will have a negative impact on their work and their lives, according to Fortune.

The survey commissioned by employees found that the 5-days-in-the-office policy received an average rating of 1.4 on a scale of one to five, with one indicating strong dissatisfaction and five indicating strong satisfaction.

“I work with people in many time zones,” says a survey response from Fortune (TIME). “With RTO, they no longer have the flexibility to simply shift their work schedules and collaborate. Three days had an immediate impact here, and five days will only be worse.”

Others said that people actually had more time to work when working remotely because they didn't waste time commuting.

Some employees said they were looking for a new job as a result of the policy change.

“Amazon has announced an RTO of 5 days, which is unfortunate because I'm interested in making a living, not live-action role-playing and virtue-mongering,” said CJ Felli, a systems development engineer for Amazon Web Services. wrote on Linkedin. “If you have remote work options, please message me. Nothing is out of the question. I would rather go back to school than go back to working in an office.”

The discontent comes after Amazon ended another remote work policy that allowed employees to work from any location within their country of employment for four weeks a year. Amazon had originally announced that this program would end but did not provide a start date. On Monday, it updated its policy and said the program is ending immediately. Business Insider reported.

“They don't want us here,” one worker told the newspaper in response to the change, suspecting the new policy is aimed at pushing out employees and reducing staff numbers.

CEO Andy Jassy said he believes the new policy, which takes effect on January 2, 2025, is better positioned Amazon “To invent, collaborate and be sufficiently connected to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the company.”